Group: Music

Both of us had a similar sense of what kind of music we would like to have in the piece, mainly from our primary influence of Gone Girl (Fincher, 2014). We liked the digital and grungy style of composers Trent Reznor & Atticus Ross. Taran specifically liked the style of Japanese composer Yoko Kanno. 

I (Mishaal) had recently purchased a soundtrack pack from Triune Films at a reduced cost,
with the intent of using it in the piece as it was a horror music pack.

This pack was quite dense with 10 sound types, and each of those with 3 different levels of suspense, and then each of these track split into their different instruments. We picked one track in particular which we liked. We started with looking at the different suspense levels of the track. We used the low suspense track for the first part. But there was a section we liked, as it was a good ambient part. But this wasn't long enough to sustain the length of the clip, so we stretched it out while still keeping the pitch the same. Lastly, I (Mishaal) found previously an audio effect called "Guitar Suite" in Premiere Pro which when added to a clip, makes it sound as if it was being played on an electric guitar. This fit exactly the tone that we were going for. We played around with some of the presets and eventually got to what we wanted. It was grungy but still able to hear the orchestral nature of the track. 

Then we took the end of the high suspense track, when it built to a crescendo, as the ending music for the piece. We aligned the music note change at the end to the reveal of Lara as the antagonist. This worked well, as then the shot cut to back and the title faded on, with still some hints of the music playing in the background. We moved the title around to best fit to when it should fade on.